I went to see Brett Anderson recently (’cause, you know, I’m in London daaaahling). He was very very good. I strongly recommend his new album.

A fire in the sun can’t be seen, but all the same (all the more?) it is hot.

Or do I mean sad? Metaphors aren’t my strong suit either.

SG - please don’t sully the good name of Blur. That was most definitely Oasis, as is my entry (although from my POV, Herr Zenger’s rule #1 may be violated):

“Wonderwall”

“Crying like a fire in the sun” - from “It’s all over now, Baby Blue”

Fire can cry? Whoda thunkit.

Her aussie dentist inspected the work when she got back, and said surprisingly it was a great job, ($50 for the reconstruction) though also said she had seen some nasty ones in the past.

Having been through the process, have no more concerns about that hospital than those in Brisbane.

Heck, my dentist in cairns gave me meds (without any warning of side effects) that put me in hospital for four days in a pretty precarious situation a few years back.

Here are a few basic ground rules:
1. It’s better if the line comes from an artist with a high reputation (i.e., a terrible line from the Beatles is much funnier than an even worse line from say Uriah Heep)
2. You can’t cite anything from Rush, Yes/Jon Anderson, or the Queen song “Ogre Battle,” or else they would take up the entire list.

Here’s our winners so far (new entries welcome)…

#3. from Bruce Springsteen:
“The amusement park rises bold and stark” (Born to Run, ouch)
#2. from Queen:
“I challenge the mighty Titan and his troubadors!” (from Seven Seas of Rye, so it just barely passes the Ogre Battle test)

and the number 1 worst rock lyric of all time is from, ahem, none other than Bob Dylan himself…

#1. “Your dancing child with his Chinese suit, he spoke to me. I took his flute.”

Other entries?

It treats over several-time. It will become after Tuesday in next week next time
if it is necessary to wait for the inflammation to calm down.
The god doesn’t come recommended today because power to match is applied, and the pain occurs
strongly when following it in apprecation of the beautiful.

Google translation is such a wonderful thing…

I go to a clinic in the CBD here. The hygienist who is a chatty honest woman tells me that diplomatic and other people posted overseas often do what my daughter did because of the quality of the work you get done here.

Artificial titanium pegs are a different ballgame. If the dentist makes a mistake I believe you can end up with a paralysed face. Also although it’s unlikely you do need to monitor them because the gum can die around the peg, which is big trouble.

The bottom line is I trust my dentist, so I’m not going anywhere. He did a masters degree in Cambridge because he had the opportunity and because he reckons it allowed him to keep playing rugby union for longer. Recently he did a course in Switzerland so he could plant his own titanium pegs instead of referring patients to a specialist. And charge the bucks they charge, no doubt.

Thailand is around $1000 return. $4000 will get you a crown or two no probs, with plenty of $ for some serious r and r, and a nice donation to the Kareni refugee camps (or whatever cause takes your fancy) to boot.

http://suburban-gothic.blogspot.com/2007/04/stark-eurasian-travel-update.html
(PS Our dentist is in evening wear in this pic as our daughter noticed a rough spot after the proceedure, and she obligingly took 5 mins to buff the tooth for us, despite having changed into her formal wear and being on her way to a posh banquent. Original work done in full whites and masks

Spent Sunday Buying a heap of plants and planting them. Nature obligingly provided plenty of rain to water them in.

@#&^$ dog misbehaved in first advanced obedience training session first thing Really worth getting up early on my only free day, NOT!

For toothwork I recommend Japan. I broke 3 teeth playing soccer injapan. Total cost for removal of a nerve and porcelain caps: $100. After health insurance: $30. I kept one of my receipts for a while, as a keepsake. It was a receipt for a $1 service.

It’s in my premium chewing zone, so it looks to me like I’ll need another titanium peg. The last a few years ago cost $5k. That’s bad enough, but I’ve just spent $2.5k on renewing a crown and a few sundry running repairs.

That was my Sunday morning. The rest of me is a bit less decrepit than that and this afternoon I started training for our planned assault on what was the tallest building in the world in the 1890s, the Münster Lutheran church in Ulm where we plan to be on 30 October. It has 768 steps. I found a spiral staircase with 34 steps, so I walked up and down (down and up, actually) 10 times in less than 10 minutes without knocking up too much.

One tooth costs more than a air fare around the world. That hurts!

And got myself a perfectly good almost-new washing machine for free from the neighbours. It’s half as big as my old washing machine, but it’s big advantage over the old Hoover is that it actually works.

Sunday: Was supposed to work, but slept in too long and landed up taking a sickie.

Didn’t watch Dr. Who. Instead, downloaded the first episode of a quirky sitcom series that seems to be a combination of Bewitched and Terminator.

East Coast Eagles SUCK!!! Winning rules!!! Etc!!!